At present, the poultry meat exporting countries, like the United States, European Union, Brazil and Thailand find favor in China’s market. And in the future they will look China as a big importing country.

China has great potential in expanding its poultry meat export (mainly raw chicken meat). One is China’s high output. The second is the fact that China has over 10 poultry exporting and processing enterprises, mainly distributed in Shandong, Liaoning and other coastal provinces. The key of export expansion is to increase product quality and solving the problems of unstable product quality.

The export object should not be unitary, great attention should be paid to the relations with bordering poultry meat importing countries, like Russia, Japan and South Korea. In addition, the importing potential of Middle Eastern countries is also very great, like Kuwait, Sauti Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.

The price of raw chicken meat in China has not significant advantage in the world, but we can maximize favorable factors and minimize unfavorable ones and develop cooked food processing by using native chicken, duck and goose as the raw materials as the key.

Although China is a big poultry meat producing country, yet, the per capita poultry meat output is just close the world average level. Therefore, the key of poultry meat development of and sales should still be the domestic market. The gap of prices between native chickens and foreign breed chickens is now increasing, which means the Chinese domestic market need native chickens.

Source: Chinese Journal of Poultry Science, No. 12, 2003. p.10